How to integrate subs with full range speakers

Full range loudspeakers aren't as full range as most people believe and they benefit from the addition of a subwoofer. How is this done and how does one know when they are needed or not? Have a question you want to ask Paul? www.psaudio.com/ask-paul/
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  • @JustinLoving
    @JustinLoving5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for answering my question!!

  • @DavidKowalski
    @DavidKowalski3 жыл бұрын

    I've found that even if my full-range speakers are rated down to 30 or 40 Hz, there may be a spot at which they do not handle the low frequencies as gracefully as can a good subwoofer (emphasis on "good"). Thus, I will experiment with differing crossover points even with full-range speakers. I'm just careful to not set the crossover above what the subwoofer can most gracefully handle.

  • @rotaks1
    @rotaks15 жыл бұрын

    After hearing your advice previously, I run a pair of double impacts with A pair of Rels connected high level. It was a huge difference.

  • @jontiffinphoto
    @jontiffinphoto5 жыл бұрын

    Love your show Paul. Can’t wait for the book!!

  • @eddiegalindo1770
    @eddiegalindo17705 жыл бұрын

    I just hope that when I go to your store you will be

  • @melraine919
    @melraine919

    Good video and informative thank you 👍🏼✌🏼

  • @peterhaslund
    @peterhaslund Жыл бұрын

    Let me get this straight: Paul would not add another sub to his loudspeaker built-in sub?! Wow, that's so bold!

  • @walterkasper467
    @walterkasper4675 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for this info. !!!

  • @chrisvinicombe9947
    @chrisvinicombe99475 жыл бұрын

    Interesting tip I'll give that a go

  • @cazzavillan
    @cazzavillan4 жыл бұрын

    Everyone one of these videos are awesome!

  • @madmax2069
    @madmax20695 жыл бұрын

    If you're testing a sub to find out where to put it, the best thing to do is to install a signal generator app (PA Tone is a good one) on your smartphone/tablet (or you have an actual tone generator), hook the phone/tablet up to your system, open said app and set a lowish frequency using sine and then do the sub crawl after you set the sub at your listening position.

  • @garth56
    @garth565 жыл бұрын

    TDL produce or produced speaker that went down to 15Hz in room..They were transmission line and hell they were incredible especially at imaging :-)

  • @jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171
    @jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot41712 жыл бұрын

    There is a trend in motion pictures at present, especially sci fi amd space films, you’ll hear some gargantuan ludicrously oversized behemoth of a piece of gear, hogging its way onto the screen, and so as this beast makes its movements, the animation is reinforced by this warbally, reverberating bass sort of sustained to almost a drone of a sound. One that almost is too low to be a real sound but instead a combination of very low and practically inaudible LFO effecting on an audible tone to where the artifacts are slowly peeling away the sound from your ears and transferring them to your spine. I don’t think these types of sounds had ever been implemented so often before the year 1998 or so, and so I think of it as a trend. But it does remind me of those old colored chrome cassette tapes that they used to sell for testing your bass in your car’s audio system. Those ‘bass tapes’ are really great and I miss them.

  • @fookingsog
    @fookingsog5 жыл бұрын

    Room Corner Loaded Subwoofers Work Quite Nicely as you Basically have 3 Radiating Surfaces for the Subwoofer to Emanate from!!! Level, Crossover & Phasing of the Subwoofer should be such that the Subwoofer "disappears" and doesn't interfere with the imaging of your main speakers!!!

  • @akrocuba
    @akrocuba2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed. I have always tried to set my speaker system to MY ear. Everyone’s ear is different

  • @stevec.6119
    @stevec.61194 жыл бұрын

    First things first: I LOVE your videos !!!! Second: out of ALL the many subwoofer videos you've posted......none of them that I've seen so far have laid out EXACTLY how you wire them up??? I understand that you prefer high level (speaker) connection, but you never say how to do it ?? Do you run parallel speakers from your amp's output to your mains and also to your sub?? Or do you run wires to your sub...and then out of your sub's output to your mains?? Or do you run wires from you A speaker output to your mains, and run your B speaker outputs to your sub??? HELP !!!!!!!!!

  • @graxjpg
    @graxjpg3 жыл бұрын

    Mine say they go down to 40. Can’t wait to add a sub to my setup.

  • @joekiddent
    @joekiddent5 жыл бұрын

    not really hi fi but my new pa rig is turbosound and my 18 subs and every size of mains are factory set so you can tell the sub that there is a matched 15, 12, 10, or 8 on top and the full range can be crossed over to either the matching 15, or 18 sub.... no guessing!! the i,age out front sounds great and unlike a lot of shitty dj's and live sound guys; i don't have to "guess" with my subs...

  • @musicalchurch
    @musicalchurch5 жыл бұрын

    Paul, do you recommend a pair of Subs or will one sub typically suffice?

  • @johnsweda2999
    @johnsweda29995 жыл бұрын

    But what about positioning of the sub should it be pointed straight forward pointing down to the floor pointing up to the ceiling or even pointing to the back wall